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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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PARLOR GAMES

Parlor Games, June 2006
by Leda Swann, Julia Templeton, Jess Michaels

Avon Red
320 pages
ISBN: 0060882298
Trade Size
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"Sexy, erotic blast from the past - steamy, fast and fun."

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PARLOR GAMES
Leda Swann, Julia Templeton, Jess Michaels

Reviewed by Sheila Graves
Posted May 6, 2006

Erotic | Romance Erotica Sensual | Historical

FALLEN ANGEL by Jess Michaels: London, 1815. John Valentine, former Bow Street runner, has been hired by Annabella Nichols, proprietor of an underground sex club. Someone is threatening to kill her. But in order to protect her and find out who's trying to kill her, she and Valentine must appear to be lovers. For the charade to seem true, they decide to make it reality. Valentine finds himself falling in love with Annabella, but the lady is keeping secrets from him. And how can he love her if he can't trust her?

PARLOR GAMES by Leda Swan: Sarah Chesham is an out- of-work seamstress, down to her last few pennies. While having a ha'penny cup of coffee, she asks if any work is available at the establishment. A pretty, yet naive daughter of a curate, she takes the job offered, hoping to keep her virginity, even though she'll be a Coffee House Girl, one step up from a prostitute. When freelance writer Tom Wilde sees her while at the coffeehouse snooping for a story, he's smitten immediately and is determined to keep her away from the fat, old member of Parliament sniffing after her. Sarah is very attracted to Tom, but no matter how intense her sexual desire gets, she still wants to keep her virginity -- until the Parliament member gets her away from everyone and sets out to rape her.

BORDER LORD by Julia Templeton: Terri Campbell is in Scotland, still reeling from finding her fiancΓ© naked with his secretary. To take her mind off her troubles, she takes a tour of the centuries-old Priory of Grace. Leaving the tour, she enters a legendary locked chamber and encounters someone -- or something -- she doesn't understand. Then she awakens to find she's someone else -- the daughter of a Highland lord in the year 1294 about to be abducted by Brochan Douglas, Laird MacLellan. Brochan kidnaps her to get revenge against her father, who killed his brother. Even though she's struggling to understand how she could become this other person, Terri is extremely attracted to Brochan. And Brochan doesn't count on the immediate connection between them, or the desire that tells him he must have her at all costs. And keep her.

This anthology was a hot blast from the past. Steamy plots, erotic scenes and very likable characters made it a fast, fun read. Each story was the perfect length for a break from the humdrum of everyday life. And who knew the men and women from long ago engaged in such shocking manners! Very intense sexual situations. I enjoyed it a lot -- a good read.

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SUMMARY

In these three historical tales of sensual awakening,
nothing that stimulates and titillates is taboo, ecstasy
comes in many sizes, and pleasure is its own reward . . . a
world of seduction and sensation, where inhibitions are
unlaced and desires long corseted are gloriously
freed. . . .

Fallen Angel by Jess Michaels
Arabella Nichols has reversed her bad luck and misfortune
by creating a notorious and successful underground
erotic β€˜club’. But someone wants her dead. So she hires
disgraced former Bow Street Runner John Valentine to
protect her. But pretending to be lovers isn’t going to be
enough for either of them. Can they overcome painful
pasts, secrets long held and a person bent on murder to
find true love?

Parlor Games by Leda Swann
An innocent virgin enters a brothel to escape starvation
and receives expert tutelage in the steamy Victorian parlor
games that rakish gentlemen indulge in. . . .

Border Lord by Julia Templeton
Fleeing an unfaithful fiancΓ©, a nubile young lovely finds
herself the prisoner of a lustful Scottish laird and must
bow to his every erotic whim. . . .

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